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At least Eye-Rack is getting 10 Billion a month. Just remember when you're eating cat food next to a oil drum fireplace that freedom isn't free!

why is there not a public accounting of where all this money went.money belongs to the taxpayers we have a right to an explanation of where the money went.how many more programs have to be cut from the poor and how many more taxes are going to be raised.but yet rhode island voters still vote the same ones back into office.its time for a better plan dont you think

Governor Befuddled is so out of it it's criminal. He promised 20,000 net new jobs a year and wasn't even able to make that limited target during his first four years, even though he low-balled the number to make himself look good and RI had been creating more than 30,000 net new jobs a year under Ed DiPrete when Bill Clinton was president.

Governor Beffudled's been a disaster since he took office. Our state economy has been in a disastrous decline ever since, and all he does is spew meaningless rhetoric blaming everyone but himself for the state's woes. This is the same Gov. Befuddled who lectured us on ethics and morality for four years and he's the ONLY state official to have been cited four times by the state ethics commission for ethics violations.

Governor Befuddled, please do all Rhode Islanders a favor and simply resign. We can't afford your lack of leadership and pronounced incompetence for another two years!!!

Its a shame that over a month has passed since information re: the Budget defict came to light. And now the General Assembly is just now getting around to dealing the the reality of a budget deficit, of couse after they received their cost-of living raises and trips, lets not forget those important trips.
But I guess that it is not that important that many of RI taxpayers are not going to see a raise this year, or even take a trip.
It would be a true gesture of honesty and integrety if they (General Assembly and the Senete) were honest and admit, they haven't got a clue. They might want to enlist some experts.

Hopefully the Governor's office will provide a "workable" supplemental budget this time. He normally submits budgets that are not properly funded then dumps it on the Legislature to fix and take the heat for anything that does not work out. Great leadership.

Raise Taxes!

Bill I agree with you, part of the problem is how many people in this state get some type of compensation at taxpayer expense. There will never be an audit or a justifcation of how the funds are spent. The people of this state either do not care are getting a piece of the pie.

Which will go bankrupt first? Twin River or the state of RHode Island?

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Governor Befuddled, be damned! The ills of Rhode Island are not the Governor's fault, It's the buffoons in our legislature who battle him at every turn. They are the ones who should have been turned out at the last election, but no, the "Good Old Boy Network" was voted back in by the very people who complain about the Governor. Keep voting those dummies back in Rhode Islanders and you will get what you deserve.